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Adopting mobile money : evidence from an experiment in rural Africa

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020

Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...

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Workers in the crowd : the labour market impact of the online platform economy

Cantarella, Michele; Strozzi, Chiara - 2019

In this paper, we compare wages and labor market conditions of individuals engaged in online platform work and in traditional occupations by exploiting individual-level survey data on crowdworkers belonging to the largest micro-task marketplaces, focusing on evidence from the United States and...

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Digital entrepreneurship research: a concise introduction

Naudé, Wim; Liebregts, Werner - 2020

In the past few decades, technological progress has led to the digitization and digitalization of economies into what one could now call digital economies. The COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the development of the digital economy. In a digital economy, digital entrepreneurs pursue...

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Piecework and job search in the platform economy

Cantarella, Michele; Strozzi, Chiara - 2022

The massive growth of jobs in the platform economy has reignited a long-standing debate on the wage elasticity of labour supply for the self-employed. Overwhelming empirical evidence seems to suggest that workers in the platform economy will work more hours than they wish to, for a lower wage,...

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Sooner rather than later: social networks and technology adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; … - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the use of Tissue Culture Banana (TCB), an in vitro banana cultivation technology. We find that an...

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Mobile internet adoption in West Africa

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Ochoa, Rogelio Granguillhome - 2021

Mobile broadband internet is the main technology through which individuals access the internet in developing countries. Understanding the barriers to broadband adoption is thus a priority in designing policies aiming to expand access and close the digital divide across socioeconomic groups and...

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Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? : evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland

Schultheiss, Tobias; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

In an environment of accelerating technological change and increasing digitalization, firms need to adopt new technologies faster than ever before to stay competitive. This paper examines whether updates of education curricula help to bring new technologies faster into firms' workplaces. We...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep K. (contributor); … - 2008

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …. -- Transition ; convergence ; market structure ; competition ; enterprise finance ; enterprise restructuring …

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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009

We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...

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Meeting technologies and optimal trading mechanisms in competitive search markets

Lester, Benjamin; Visschers, Ludo; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2014

In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use mechanisms that are socially efficient. In our environment, sellers achieve this by posting an...

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